Darren Garrett The steelworks in Port Talbot, Wales, once among the largest in Europe, are the tallest buildings for miles in any direction. 50 years ago, they loomed over the town as a symbol of prosperity; today they represent the loss of that success. In the 1960s, nearly 20,000 of a population of 50,000 worked there; now, only 4,000 do , roughly one in ten residents.
"[The steel industry] was deeply entwined with the social life," says Bleddyn Penny. He grew up in a similar Welsh community, and went on to study the post-World War II social history of Port […]
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